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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 9: (search)
. As soon as he could leave the room, he was hurried away to preside at a meeting held to organize a society for encouraging the cultivation of bees, for he is the centre of all movement and activity at Oxford. He asked me to go with him, and I soon found myself in the midst of a collection of masters of colleges and their wives, . . . . and many of the principal persons at Oxford, assembled by the zeal of one of the Fellows of Christ Church,—Cotton, W. C. Cotton afterwards went to New Zealand with Bishop Selwyn.—a man of fortune, who hopes to do much good by persuading the cottagers of the country about to cultivate bees. Buckland made it all very amusing, . . . . and everything was done that Mr. Cotton desired. It was now late. Buckland asked me to go home and dine with him, but I was very tired, . . . . and came back to the comfort and quiet of our excellent inn . . . . May 16.—I breakfasted with Dr. Buckland, and met Dr. Duncan, one of the principal persons at the mee<